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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the window, ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all hig...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances. Na...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me, that a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and earth, the e...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poetic youth dreams...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beauti...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. W...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a search after power: and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,—there is no chink or crevice in which it is not l...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms th...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is with religion as with marriage. A youth marries in haste; afterwards, when his mind is opened to the reason of the conduct of life, he i...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fa...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools ...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is therefore useful, beca...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,—no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could beho...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last gener...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publish...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I refuse My study for their politique, Which at the best is trick, The angry Muse Puts confusion in my brain.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature,—who would accept the gift of life?
By Ralph Waldo Emerson